COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12022, 23 March 1903, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

• »ALi£;j* • The C.irtarbary Farmers* Co-operative Association (per Sir Gns. Jones, auctioneer) report that, owing to harvest operations bemg in full swing, the attendance of farmers and entry of horses at Tattersall's 0& Saturday were smaS. Any good sorts of horses were keenly competed for, young draughts selling up to £&5. Mr J. B. Rutland held his Usual sale at | the Beswict street auction rooms on Satur- ! day. There was a moderate entry of poultry, and the following prices were realised:—Roosters, 3s to 3s 3d; hens, Is 9d to 2s; ducks, 2s 9d, 5s M to 3s 9d per pair. Purebred Minorca roosters brought 6s 6d and 7s each. In pigs, slips realised 12s 6d and 15s; one wellbred calf realised 225, and an inferior calf ss. There was a slump in potatoes, sacks dug a week or two ago bringing 2s 6d to 3s each, and freshly-dug 5s to 7s. There ■was no grain offering. Butter brought B£d per lb; eggs, Is Id a dozen; and apples jjd per lb. Cutlery, crockery, furniture and other lines sold welL

CLEARING SALE. Messrs Maling and Shnlhrass report holding & most successful clearing sale at Te Mara, near Winchester, on Friday, on account of Mr McFarlane and Captain Wright. There was a very large attendance of buyers, and bidding was spirited throughout, the stock being all in exceptionally good condition. Prices realised were as follows:—Store lambs, 10s 7d, lis 6d, lis 8d; fat and forward lambs, 15s 3d; 4tooth halfbred ewes. 17s 4d; 6-tooth halfbred ewes, 16s 9d t 2 and 4-tooth threequarter bred ewes, 16s 4d: 6-tooth threequarter bred ewes, 16s 8d; fat and forward wethers, 15s 7d; fat ewes. 10s 8d; store ewes, 7s lid : Kncrlish Leicester rams sold at from 2£ to 2J Jnineas ; 10-months' steers made from £3 ICs to £4 2s 6d; 18-months. £4 5s to £4 12s 6d; 18-months to two-year-old heifers. £3 to £5 15s; calves. ?■ s: cows. t\rr> at £10: one at £ll, and at £6 ss. £6 ICs. £9 and £9 b 514 10s • £25; drays. £4 10s to £9 ss; cultivator, £l2 10s; drill, £27, r.nd a larjre quantity of other implements, sundries and furniture at fall sale rates.